FOOTNOTES:
[1] Leland's Itinerary, Ed. L. T. Smith, Vol. I, 18-19.
[2] Leland's Itinerary, Ed. L. T. Smith, Vol. IV, 126.
[3] Collins, Peerage of England, IX, 460.
[4] J. Nichols, Collections toward the History of Leicestershire (Biblioth. Topogr. Brit., VII, 534). See, below, Appendix, A.
[5] Letters relating to the Suppression of the Monasteries, pp. 251-252, Camden Society, 1843. The editor, Thos. Wright, describes the petitioner as of Thringston, Co. Leicester.
[6] J. M. Rigg, Dict. Nat. Biog. art., John Beaumont; and Nichols's History of Leicestershire, III, ii, 651, et seq.
[7] Collins, Peerage, VI, 648, et seq.; H. N. Bell, The Huntingdon Peerage, 1821. See also, below, Appendix, Table B.
[8] Calendar of State Papers (Domestic), 1595, p. 154.
[9] Challoner, Missionary Priests, I, 347.